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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXXVIII


A LITTLE madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene—
This whole experiment of green,        5
As if it were his own!

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